490 *  JUGLANDACER. [Suglans. 
is acrid and often astringent. The seeds of the common walnut is 
a favoured dessert. 
Fruit a large drupe with a poe Bends 3 3 es ‘ . Juglans. 
Drupe small, dry, adnate to the enlarged, wing-shaped, 3-lobed 
bract =. ‘ . : A . ; : . . Engelhardtia, 
JUGLANS, L. 
Male catkins: perianth 5-6-lobed, adnate to the inner side of 
the bract. Stamens inserted on the torus in 2 or many rows; fila- 
ments very short, free; anthers 2-celled. Ovary-rudiment very 
rarely present. Female spikes short, terminal, few-flowered. Pe- 
1. J. regia, L.; Brand. For. Fl. 497.—A leaf-shedding large 
tree, the very young shoots velvety or floccose-pubescent ; leaves 
glabrous, unpaired-pinnate, the leaflets in 5-6 pairs, ovate or 
ovate-lanceolate, somewhat unequal, almost sessile, membranous oF 
nearly coriaceous, acuminate, 6-8 in. long, entire, glabrous, pilose 
in the nerve-axils beneath; male flowers sessile, the bract lanceo- 
late; perianth elongated, 6-lobed ; stamens usually 12, as long as 
the perianth-lobes; female spikes 2-5-flowered, the flowers sessile, 
the outer perianth villous, 3-toothed at the apex, the mner one 
glabrous and 4-toothed ; drupes about 1-1} in. long, elliptically 
oblong, with a glabrous pericarp, the nut ovoid, acuminate, deeply 
and roundedly wrinkled and pitted. . 
Has.—Ava hills.—Fr. June-Aug, 
MaRrKs.— Wood of young trees white and comparatively soft, that of full- 
wn trees compact, dark brown, beautifully veined and shaded with light- 
own and black. Good for cabinet-making, gun-stocks, etc. 
Nore.—In the Shan States east of Ava grows another species of Jugiant 
with smaller, almost globose, quite smooth nuts, but nothing is known a Ue 
the tree itself. 
ENGELHARDTIA, Lesch. 
Flowers monoecious, in unisexual or androgynous simple oF 
panicled spikes. Male flowers usually sessile or nearly 80; P 
anth unequally 3-6-cleft, on a 3-lobed bract. Stamens 5-135 
filaments very short. Female flowers very numerous, sessile OF 
nearly go, adhering to the base of a large 3- or 5-lobed bract, Pe 
